Pieced backings for quilts

If you find yourself losing steam after your patchwork quilt top is made, you’re not alone. But wait! Finishing that quilt is going to be soooo rewarding. Here are some ideas to help you push on to make that quilt backing.

There’s a fun event going on right now on Instagram that I wanted to tell you blog readers about. Andrea, of 3rd Story Workshop, is hosting a quilt back party, which turns the spotlight on the works of art on the back of our quilts. If you have an Instagram account, you can still get in on the action and be entered to win some cool prizes by posting some backs of your own. Even if you aren’t on Instagram, you can view what others are posting through a web browser. Just click here! So far…

The only part of making a quilt that I do not enjoy is sewing the quilt back. I just hate calculating the dimensions, cutting the pieces and then sewing them together. There are many, many ways t…

This fabric calculator will tell you how much fabric you need for both a quilt and its backing. Standard mattress sizes are given.

One day, while browsing blogs, I found a reference to diagonally pieced backings. A neat way to stretch the width of your fabric, without have to buy a ton of extra fabric and piece 2 vertical panels. You simply fold your fabric diagonally from corner to corner. Cut along this line, to get 2 triangles. Then, you slide one triangle up and out, to create a wider fabric sheet. Carefully line up the edges with this new offset, and sew them back together again (see the first diagram below). In my…

Not sure why quilt backs have been on my mind lately, especially considering the fact that by the time I finish a quilt top, I really don'...

Looking for some creative and unique quilt backing ideas? Look no further! This list of ideas includes everything from using leftover materials to incorporating fun and funky features on the quilt back!

Quilt backing Ideas - The Little Mushroom Cap

Several times the question has come up about pieced backings. Can I? Should I? How do I? Starting with this post, I am going to...